The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Carlo Ginzburg’s The Night Battles examines witchcraft and agrarian cults during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This focused historical work considers rural beliefs and practices within their early modern social and cultural setting, offering readers a thoughtful study of religion, tradition, and historical change.
About This Book
The Night Battles explores witchcraft and agrarian cults in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Carlo Ginzburg presents a focused historical study of beliefs and practices associated with rural religious life.
The book places its subject within the broader social and cultural context of the early modern period.
It offers readers an examination of how witchcraft and agrarian traditions intersected in European history.
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